I would call it the stretch - it stretching a smile on and it's a stretch to do it.

Charlsy,

Cynical can be good, it's a national pastime in Britain where our politicians are concerned. The thing is, even if it's a genuine smile... why are they smiling and why at you? _________________Confusion comes fitted as standard.

...they were the test group who didn't have to count backward by 17s?_________________God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor

Gingerpale I probably should have posted my thoughts (while they were fresh) on the Dalai Lama's speech as soon as I arrived home. The first thing you notice is what a terrific sense of humour the man has. He also appears to be a very humble man, which I'm told by people who have met him, he is. He was speaking on compassion and kindness and talked how our compassion is generally an attached compassion and we need to achieve unattached compassion. When we achieve unattached compassion, kindness to all living things follows. Something he said I felt was almost aimed at me was that two people with the same illness can have totally different experiences due to their own atitude toward their illness. In Auckland he spoke to a crowd of 10,000 in a covered arena. A lot of concentration was required to hear and understand his message and I probably missed a little when my mind wandered._________________Barbara

beautiful post Barbara!...I truly CAN hear your voice saying those words.._________________"I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson

how about this idea...have an open mind and be attached to nothing...that sounds like flight to me!...

maybe 1 person every 60 billion years truly and really lives that way _________________"I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson

Clearly, in real life situations there would be lots more information leading to the critical moment and following from it to draw on._________________God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor

perhaps the idea that all is fine...the comings and the goings..only a zillionth percentage of humanity lives that way still, as they say, a zillionth is better than nothing..._________________"I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson